Pain: Dynamics and Complexities
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 April 2014
- ISBN 9780199331536
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 236x157x17 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book explores evolving concepts of the complex nature of pain through a mixture of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy of science. It provides a glimpse into potential new frontiers of pain research and treatment.
MoreLong description:
Despite the proliferation of pain clinics and various pain-oriented therapies, there is an absence of data supporting any substantial change in the statistics regarding the incidence, development and persistence of pain. As renowned pain clinician and scientist Daniel M. Doleys argues, there may be a need for a fundamental shift in the way we view pain. In this thoughtful work, Doleys presents the evolving concept and complex nature of pain with the intention of promoting a broadening of the existing paradigm within which pain is viewed and understood. Combining neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy of science, this book reviews the history of pain and outlines the current concepts and theories regarding the mechanisms involved in the experience of pain. Experimental and clinical research in a broad array of areas including neonatal pain, empathy and pain, psychogenic pain, and genetics and pain is summarized. The notion of pain as a disease process rather than a symptom is highlighted. Although there is a continued interest in activation of the peripheral nociceptive system as a determining factor in the experience of pain, the growing appreciation for the brain as the intimate 'pain generator' is emphasized. The definition of consciousness and conscious awareness and a theory as to how it relates to nociceptive processing is discussed. Finally, the author describes the potential benefit of incorporating some of the concepts from systems and quantum theory into our thinking about pain. The area of pain research and treatment seems on the precipice of change. This work intends to provide a glimpse of what these changes might be in the context of where pain research and therapy has come from, where it currently is, and where it might be headed.
You'll be glad to learn that pain research and treatment have reached a place of welcome change. In this book, Dr. Daniel M. Doleys provides you useful, new, and unusual information and insight. All in all, this is an excellent book on pain, with a lot of interesting and unusual information.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. History of Pain
3. Pain Mechanisms and Types
4. Pain and the Brain
5. Pain Processing: Some Theories
6. The Complexities of Measuring Pain
7. Psychogenic Pain: Is the Concept Useful?
8. Pain as a Disease
9. Pain in Neonates and Infants
10. Pain and Religion
11. Empathy and Pain
12. Genetics and Pain
13. Pain and Consciousness
14. Pain: Present and Future Considerations
